The Foreshadowing of Forester's Own "Bath Chair"

According to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biographies, Forester suffered heart problem that left him in a wheel chair/ Bath chair prior to his death. Although his physicasl ailments prevented him from ever being able to join the military and share in the experience of direct combact like Curzon, it is also his physical ailments that brought him to the same end as our General. It seems fitting that while only nature and the unavoidable failure of his own body brought Forester to his Bath Chair, it is Curzon's mental frailty/weakness that puts him in his. When at last he breaks out of his idealism in a "vivd flash of imagination, like lightning at night", and for an instant sees his future, he can't handle it and "dashes down the road on his horse"(260-261). Once he lets go, and abandones himself to riding with "no thought in his head", he is wounded permanently. While the bullet did the physical damage, I believe it was his moment of mental weakness that put him in his chair.